November 28, 2008
Early morning at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge before the various snow geese and sandhill cranes take flight is a quiet time and then just before thousands of birds fly-out, the sounds get louder and louder. The refuge is the winter home for tens of thousands of birds of all sizes.
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Bosque of the birds
Every winter morning 100,000 birds take flight from the still waters of this New Mexico refuge
It’s a cold, crisp predawn, with the temperature in the 20s in the central Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico. Then the silence cracks, with a single quack from the rustling snow geese, then another and another. Soon, a cacophonous chorus of snow geese and sandhill cranes fills the morning air — the signal the fly-out is about to begin.
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